Since originally writing this post, Evoto has come along and done just that: Letting you base all your shots on the crop of a single one. Works perfectly. In fact, if you're doing headshots or portraits, there's no need to open Lightroom at all. Evoto can shoot tethered, do a quick retouch on the fly (as the photo appears), and export. I'm not affiliated in any way with them, just impressed with how good they've gotten so quickly! Highly recommend.
Evoto is great, but for me that do school portraits I have to export the same picture in more formats and I use all keywords, face detection and color grading on the Lightroom. I don't do any massive edition beside that.
It would change my world to have an auto crop feature in LRC. I have played with a ton of different ones, and they either crop too loosely or don't respect the subject. I downloaded a trial of Capture One and their auto crop is nearly perfect. In their studio version, you can set percentages of border and have it crop for the subject. But because Capture One is not only expensive for that version, but also doesn't play nicely with LRC files, it is just far too complicated for my workflow. I love LRC and would like to stay with it. I have that I am having to look at other solutions. For reference, I shoot Dog Sports and have thousands of images to crop. Having something to simplify that step would save me incredible amounts of work.
I believe Lightroom could greatly benefit from several AI-supported improvements. The crop tool should be enhanced with AI assistance, going beyond masking. When working on repetitive tasks, such as fashion or family photography, it would be extremely helpful to have a feature that automatically positions the subject in a designated area of the frame. For example, after selecting one properly cropped reference image, Lightroom could automatically crop the remaining photos in a series according to that template.
Additionally, AI should offer the option to center subjects (people or objects) within the frame, or place them in a user-defined zone. If cropping requires generating missing parts of the background, the software should provide such an option as well.
The Match Exposure tool should also work more effectively, especially when images differ only slightly in exposure. Currently, it does not unify series of photos with the needed consistency.
Finally, the Automatic Horizon feature should be improved and assigned a keyboard shortcut, as this would speed up workflow significantly.
I believe Lightroom could greatly benefit from several AI-supported improvements. The crop tool should be enhanced with AI assistance, going beyond masking. When working on repetitive tasks, such as fashion or family photography, it would be extremely helpful to have a feature that automatically positions the subject in a designated area of the frame. For example, after selecting one properly cropped reference image, Lightroom could automatically crop the remaining photos in a series according to that template.
Additionally, AI should offer the option to center subjects (people or objects) within the frame, or place them in a user-defined zone. If cropping requires generating missing parts of the background, the software should provide such an option as well.
The Match Exposure tool should also work more effectively, especially when images differ only slightly in exposure. Currently, it does not unify series of photos with the needed consistency.
Finally, the Automatic Horizon feature should be improved and assigned a keyboard shortcut, as this would speed up workflow significantly.
/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-ai-use-ai-to-recommend-composition-and-crop-images/idc-p/15529437#M25158Oct 01, 2025
Oct 01, 2025
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Commenting to add that AI features in the crop and straighten tool would also change my life. I'm a wedding photographer and I have to manually straighten thousands of photos because the auto straigthen tool simply does not consistently understand which line is the actual horizon line, and will often make photos more crooked. AI crop and straighten is the single biggest update I want to see in Lightroom.
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